- captoinfo looks in file for termcap descriptions. For
- each one found, an equivalent terminfo description is
- written to standard output. Termcap tc capabilities are
- translated directly to terminfo use capabilities.
+ captoinfo looks in file for termcap descriptions. For
+ each one found, an equivalent terminfo description is
+ written to standard output. Termcap tc capabilities are
+ translated directly to terminfo use capabilities.
- If no file is given, then the environment variable TERMCAP
- is used for the filename or entry. If TERMCAP is a full
+ If no file is given, then the environment variable TERMCAP
+ is used for the filename or entry. If TERMCAP is a full
pathname to a file, only the terminal whose name is speci-
- fied in the environment variable TERM is extracted from
- that file. If the environment variable TERMCAP is not
- set, then the file @DATADIR@/terminfo is read.
+ fied in the environment variable TERM is extracted from
+ that file. If the environment variable TERMCAP is not
+ set, then the file /usr/share/terminfo is read.
- -v print out tracing information on standard error as
+ -v print out tracing information on standard error as
the program runs.
- -V print out the version of the program in use on stan-
+ -V print out the version of the program in use on stan-
dard error and exit.
- -1 cause the fields to print out one to a line. Other-
+ -1 cause the fields to print out one to a line. Other-
wise, the fields will be printed several to a line to
a maximum width of 60 characters.
- -w change the output to width characters.
+ -w change the output to width characters.
Some obsolete nonstandard capabilities will automatically
be translated into standard (SVr4/XSI Curses) terminfo
- capabilities by captoinfo. Whenever one of these auto-
+ capabilities by captoinfo. Whenever one of these auto-
matic translations is done, the program will issue an
notification to stderr, inviting the user to check that it
has not mistakenly translated a completely unknown and
@@ -65,7 +108,6 @@
CV ve AT&T cursor_normal
DS mh AT&T enter_dim_mode
EE me AT&T exit_attribute_mode
-
FE LF AT&T label_on
FL LO AT&T label_off
XS mk AT&T enter_secure_mode
@@ -74,6 +116,7 @@
GS as XENIX enter_alt_charset_mode
HM kh XENIX key_home
LD kL XENIX key_dl
+
PD kN XENIX key_npage
PN po XENIX prtr_off
PS pf XENIX prtr_on
@@ -121,8 +164,8 @@
GG acs magic cookie count
If the single-line capabilities occur in an entry, they
- will automatically be composed into an acsc string. The
- double-line capabilities and GG are discarded with a warn-
+ will automatically be composed into an acsc string. The
+ double-line capabilities and GG are discarded with a warn-
ing message.
IBM's AIX has a terminfo facility descended from SVr1 ter-
@@ -138,28 +181,30 @@
font2 s2ds
font3 s3ds
- Additionally, the AIX box1 capability will be automati-
- cally translated to an acsc string.
+ Additionally, the AIX box1 capability will be automati-
+ cally translated to an acsc string.
Hewlett-Packard's terminfo library supports two nonstan-
- dard terminfo capabilities meml (memory lock) and memu
+ dard terminfo capabilities meml (memory lock) and memu
(memory unlock). These will be discarded with a warning
message.
NOTES
- This utility is actually a link to tic(1m), running in -I
- mode. You can use other tic options such as -f and -x.
+ This utility is actually a link to tic(1m), running in -I
+ mode. You can use other tic options such as -f and -x.
- The trace option isn't identical to SVr4's. Under SVr4,
- instead of following the -v with a trace level n, you
+ The trace option is not identical to SVr4's. Under SVr4,
+ instead of following the -v with a trace level n, you
repeat it n times.